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[Identification of item], in the Roy Watterson Black Papers, #3021-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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• Agriculture--Texas--History--19th century.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
• Confederate States of America. Army. Tennessee Infantry Regiment, 13th.
• Diaries.
• Hardeman County (Tenn.)--Social life and customs.
• Migration, Internal--Southern States--History--19th century.
• Orange County (N.C.)--Economic conditions.
• Orange County (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Paris (Tex.)--Social life and customs--19th century.
• Rogers, William J., fl. 1862-1863.
• Soldiers--Confederate States of America--Diaries.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.
• Woods, David, fl. 1821-1832.

Microfilm of typed transcriptions. Papers of and pertaining to residents of Hardeman County, Tenn., chiefly antebellum. Among the items are thirty letters, 1821-1832, received by David Woods from his parents in Orange County, N.C., concerning family, social, and economic news; a diary, 1862-1863, of William J. Rogers of the 13th Tennessee Regiment, Confederate States of America; a memoir of antebellum society; letters, 1851-1853, from Hardeman County people who had moved to Paris, Tex., with personal, crop, and stock news; and other items.